Anderson police are trying to figure out who is impersonating an officer.

An Anderson man called police and said he had gotten several harassing calls from someone claiming to be an officer.

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Dalton Moore said the calls left him feeling uneasy.

"They told me they were investigating my wife about some threatening phone calls she had made to somebody. My wife doesn't get in trouble so I was kind of concerned about that."

Moore says he got four phone calls on his home phone late Sunday night from someone claiming to be an Anderson police officer.

Every time it called it said Anderson City, and when I called it back it would ring to the police station and everything" Moore said. "And when I called, they said they hadn't made any calls to my house."

Anderson Police Sgt. Tony Tilley said theres a strong chance that the calls could be a case of spoofing.

My understanding it is called spoofing -- where you can have an app for a cell phone where you can dial someone's number and then punch in a number you would like to show up on their screen," he said. "It obviously concerns us because we want people to know we maintain a standard of professionalism and we don't want anyone to think any of our investigators would call anyone and use profanity or harass someone over the telephone."

Tilley said investigators are still checking to be sure someone didn't actually use a phone at the police department.